A Virginia lawmaker sent a petition with more than 1,200 signatures to the council which oversees higher education Wednesday evening, asking them to consider the strong public opposition he has heard to the announcement that George Mason would rename its law school after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “Stop GMU from selling the naming rights to the law school to anonymous donors who want to name it for Antonin Scalia,” the petition begins, and Del. Marcus Simon wrote that the name was as polarizing as the man himself and urged the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to take that into account.

April 28, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post